Congratulations, You Just Survived The 5 Hottest Years on Record

Five different organizations that track temperatures have all come to this conclusion: 2018 ranked among the five warmest years on record, landing in fourth place.

All of them - NOAA, NASA, Berkeley Earth, the United Kingdom's Hadley Centre and the Japan Meteorological Agency - crunched the numbers using different methods, but they each arrived at the same answer.

Confidence in this ranking is, thus, very high.

The past five years have each now ranked among the five warmest on record. According to NASA, 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2000.

The warming of the planet is unambiguous and irrefutable.

1) Temperature differences from normal around the globe averaged over the last five years

(NASA)

If the top image doesn't make this clear, which shows the temperature differences from normal averaged over the last five years, here are four more...